For an optimal site experience, CORSAIR recommends using the latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox web browsers.

SKU CL-9011106-WWCORSAIR Link Cooling and Lighting Kit

The cooling and lighting kit includes everything in the cooling kit, plus a dual-channel lighting controller and three RGB LED strips. Each channel can power up to 33 light strips (available separately).

sku: CL-9011106-WW

CORSAIR Link Cooling and Lighting Kit

The cooling and lighting kit includes everything in the cooling kit, plus a dual-channel lighting controller and three RGB LED strips. Each channel can power up to 33 light strips (available separately).

/ww/en

RETAILERS

Corsair Link gives you ultimate control — your system, your rules.

Corsair Link marks an end to the days of case fans, component fans and case lighting that must be managed manually with hardware switches and dials, while simultaneously offering more advanced control and expansion options than motherboard BIOS settings. Everything is available on your screen with a software interface that’s advanced, intuitive, and fun to use.

Precise Monitoring

Understand how your system is operating at a glance, and with an unprecedented level of detail. See coolant temperature and ambient temperature at multiple points, and track the speed of your case fans and fans built in to compatible system components. Corsair Link Dashboard displays everything you need via an attractive, customizable interface.

A New Level of Control

Manage fan speeds individually, set up customized cooling profiles, or program fans to respond to changes in ambient temperature – the choice is yours. You can program lighting to relay critical system information, change the look of your system to provide an instant visual indicator of your selected cooling profile, or just have fun. And with Corsair Link Dashboard, you can do it all without opening your PC’s case.

Open and Expandable

Corsair Link kits include fan controllers that work with virtually any standard PC case fan, and temperature sensors that can go anywhere in your case. Expand your power by adding compatible peripherals. Hardware developers can follow the Corsair Link Digital interface and engage in open development of components that can be monitored and controlled by Corsair Link Dashboard.

Getting Started is Easy

The essential gear is available in your choice of starter kits.

Corsair Link Cooling Kit

Our basic kit includes the Corsair Link Commander — the heart of any Corsair Link-enabled PC — and a Corsair Link Cooling Node that gives you desktop control of up to five PWM or DC case fans. The kit comes with three sensors for measuring ambient temperature inside your PC case, and Corsair Link Digital cables for connecting to compatible components like the Hydro Series H80 and H100 liquid CPU coolers.

Corsair Link Cooling and Lighting Kit

The cooling and lighting kit includes everything in the cooling kit, plus a dual-channel lighting controller and three RGB LED strips. Each channel can power up to 33 light strips (available separately).

Using Link with a Corsair AXi Digital Power Supply

The Corsair AXi Series PSUs have a lot of premium features. They use a digital signal processor for better performance, they're fully modular, and have a zero RPM fan mode at low loads. But one of the coolest things about the AXi power supplies, is their compatibility with the new Corsair Link software. Today, we take a look at the Corsair Link 2 software, or just "Link" for short, and more specifically how it gives you the ability to monitor AC input, DC output, the temperature and the fan speed of an AXi power supply.

The first thing I want to do is open up the "Graph" tab and set what I want to monitor in the "Config Panel" of this tab...

Above, you can see that I've checked boxes asking to have my two graphics cards' temperatures and fans graphed, as well as my CPU's temperature, the temperature of my AX860i power supply, as well as the AX860i's fan speed. I'm also monitoring the temperature of the coolant in the Hydro Series H100 that is cooling the CPU and the RPMs of the two fans cooling the H100's radiator.

While the system is idle, we can see that temperatures are relatively low. The AX860i is just barely over room temperature and therefore, the fan is not spinning.

Over on the "Power" tab, we see that the AX860i is only producing 107.3W as I sit here watching the Link software. It's pulling 117.8W from the wall, so our efficiency is 91%.

On this tab, we can also monitor our voltages, including the voltage of our AC mains, as well as current for each of our +12V outputs.

There are also check boxes that allow you to turn OCP on for the 8-pin +12V outputs (labeled "PCIe") on the power supply. OCP stands for "over current protection" and will shut down the power supply if too much current is delivered on any of these outputs.

Finally, we see the AX860i's temperature and the fan RPM on this tab. This is the same information we saw on the "Graph" tab, but in a different format. The fan is still not spinning because the temperatures are still low, but if we wanted to increase the airflow within our chassis just a bit, we can manually turn the fan speed up.

We start on the "System" tab...

On this tab, we can see everything that Corsair Link 2 monitors, but if we click on the "AX860i Fan" icon on the left, a configuration panel opens up on the right. By default, we can see the fan mode is set to "quiet" which means the fan isn't going to spin at low loads. Changing this is easy...

The lowest setting is 40%, which equates to about 784 RPM. I can keep it like this and still not hear the fan. And the fan will still ramp up even faster automatically if needed. Let's turn it up even more to find out where I can start hearing the fan...

At 76%, the fan is spinning 1508 RPM. I can definitely hear that now. Well, that's enough of that. Let's put the PSU fan back into "quiet" mode, fire up Prime95 and Furmark and see what kind of power we produce and let the fan spin up all on its own...

Almost immediately, the temperatures of the CPU and graphics cards increase. Under this load, we start to see the power supply fan ramp up as well.

After some time under load, we see our temperatures level out, an increase in the graphics cards' fan's RPMs and the PSU's fan leveling off just over 500 RPM.

When we switch back over to the "Power" tab, we can see that our load has increased to 473.4W. We're now pulling 502.9W from the wall and our efficiency is increased to 94%. We can see that the amperage delivered on all of our +12V connectors has increased, the AX860i's temperature has increased very slightly, from 26.5 to 28.8°C, and the fan is now spinning at 556 RPM.

Of course, when you're gaming you're probably not going to be able to watch your load, temperatures and fan speeds while you're playing. For this reason, Corsair Link allows you to log whatever information you'd like to keep track of in a CSV file. Simply check the boxes of the components you want to monitor, browse to where you want to save the file and give the file a name and click "start logging".